diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py
index feb9b26..480e960 100644
--- a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py
+++ b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET
 import logging
 import traceback
+import sys
+
+if sys.version_info < (3,0):
+	from . import tostring26 as tostring
+else:
+	from . import tostring
 
 xmltester = type(ET.Element('xml'))
 
@@ -23,7 +29,7 @@ class JID(object):
 	def __str__(self):
 		return self.jid
 
-class ElementBase(object):
+class ElementBase(tostring.ToString):
 	name = 'stanza'
 	plugin_attrib = 'plugin'
 	namespace = 'jabber:client'
@@ -333,63 +339,5 @@ class StanzaBase(ElementBase):
 		logging.error(traceback.format_tb(e))
 	
 	def send(self):
-		self.stream.sendRaw(str(self))
+		self.stream.sendRaw(self.__str__())
 
-	def __str__(self, xml=None, xmlns='', stringbuffer=''):
-		if xml is None:
-			xml = self.xml
-		newoutput = [stringbuffer]
-		#TODO respect ET mapped namespaces
-		itag = xml.tag.split('}', 1)[-1]
-		if '}' in xml.tag:
-			ixmlns = xml.tag.split('}', 1)[0][1:]
-		else:
-			ixmlns = ''
-		nsbuffer = ''
-		if xmlns != ixmlns and ixmlns != '' and ixmlns != self.namespace:
-			if self.stream is not None and ixmlns in self.stream.namespace_map:
-				if self.stream.namespace_map[ixmlns] != '':
-					itag = "%s:%s" % (self.stream.namespace_map[ixmlns], itag)
-			else:
-				nsbuffer = """ xmlns="%s\"""" % ixmlns
-		if ixmlns not in ('', xmlns, self.namespace):
-			nsbuffer = """ xmlns="%s\"""" % ixmlns
-		newoutput.append("<%s" % itag)
-		newoutput.append(nsbuffer)
-		for attrib in xml.attrib:
-			if '{' not in attrib:
-				newoutput.append(""" %s="%s\"""" % (attrib, self.xmlesc(xml.attrib[attrib])))
-		if len(xml) or xml.text or xml.tail:
-			newoutput.append(">")
-			if xml.text:
-				newoutput.append(self.xmlesc(xml.text))
-			if len(xml):
-				for child in xml.getchildren():
-					newoutput.append(self.__str__(child, ixmlns))
-			newoutput.append("</%s>" % (itag, ))
-			if xml.tail:
-				newoutput.append(self.xmlesc(xml.tail))
-		elif xml.text:
-			newoutput.append(">%s</%s>" % (self.xmlesc(xml.text), itag))
-		else:
-			newoutput.append(" />")
-		return ''.join(newoutput)
-
-	def xmlesc(self, text):
-		text = list(text)
-		cc = 0
-		matches = ('&', '<', '"', '>', "'")
-		for c in text:
-			if c in matches:
-				if c == '&':
-					text[cc] = '&amp;'
-				elif c == '<':
-					text[cc] = '&lt;'
-				elif c == '>':
-					text[cc] = '&gt;'
-				elif c == "'":
-					text[cc] = '&apos;'
-				else:
-					text[cc] = '&quot;'
-			cc += 1
-		return ''.join(text)
diff --git a/testall.py b/testall.py
index 00c463b..bf5e1a9 100644
--- a/testall.py
+++ b/testall.py
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ class testoverall(unittest.TestCase):
 		"""Testing all modules by compiling them"""
 		import compileall
 		import re
-		self.failUnless(compileall.compile_dir('.' + os.sep + 'sleekxmpp', rx=re.compile('/[.]svn'), quiet=True))
+		if sys.version_info < (3,0):
+			self.failUnless(compileall.compile_dir('.' + os.sep + 'sleekxmpp', rx=re.compile('/[.]svn'), quiet=True))
+		else:
+			self.failUnless(compileall.compile_dir('.' + os.sep + 'sleekxmpp', rx=re.compile('/[.]svn|26.py'), quiet=True))
 
 	def	testTabNanny(self):
 		"""Invoking the tabnanny"""